{"id":4721,"date":"2019-07-05T23:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2019-07-06T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T20:25:20","slug":"thorns-shut-out-at-home-1-0-by-reign-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2019\/07\/05\/thorns-shut-out-at-home-1-0-by-reign-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns shut out at home, 1-0 by Reign FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a beautiful Friday in Portland, the Portland Thorns could never find the net and a single Reign FC goal by Celia Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> would hold up for a 1-0 win in front of a crowd 19,116 at Providence Park.<\/p>\n

Neither team would theaten early, but the home side had the first good scoring chance in the 38th minute when Gabby Seiler<\/strong> ran a give and go with Christine Sinclair<\/strong>, taking a hard low shot from just outside the Reign box that slipped just wide left.<\/p>\n

Just before the half, the Thorns nearly took the lead when Ellie Carpenter<\/strong>‘s pass was directed towards goal by Caitlin Foord<\/strong><\/a>, with Reign goalkeeper Casey Murphy<\/strong> making a spectacular one-handed save<\/a> while leaning in the wrong direction. The Thorns would have a few more good chances before the half, with a shot by Carpenter being blocked, and shots by Saidler and Elizabeth Ball<\/strong> going just over the crossbar, and the score was 0-0 at the half.<\/p>\n

In the 55th minute, the visitors would get their first good scoring chance of the night, and they would make it pay off when the Thorns could not clear a free kick into the box. It fell to Celia Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> whose initial shot was blocked, but she fired in the rebound from 20 yards out to put the Reign up 1-0.<\/p>\n

The best chance the Thorns had to level the score would be in the 86th minute when a long throw from Carpenter was headed into the middle of the box by Sinclair, with Midge Purce<\/strong> blasting a shot from 8 yards out that was just over the crossbar. It would be the last good scoring chance and the Reign held on for the 1-0 victory.<\/p>\n

Britt Eckerstrom<\/strong> recorded two saves for the Thorns while Casey Murphy<\/strong> had a single save for the Reign.<\/p>\n

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On a beautiful Friday in Portland, the Portland Thorns could never find the net and a single Reign FC goal by Celia Jim\u00e9nez would hold up for a 1-0 win in front of a crowd 19,116 at Providence Park. Neither team would theaten early, but the home side had the first good scoring chance in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rgn070519-13.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}